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sorrowfuladj.n.adv. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Dutch zorgvol , Old High German sorgfol , sworgfol (German sorgvoll , sorgenvoll ), Old Icelandic sorgfullr , sorgafullr , Norwegian sorgfull , Old Swedish sorghfulder , sorgha fulder (Swedish sorgfull ), Old Danish sorgfuld , sorgafuld (Danish sorgfuld ) < the Germanic base of sorrow n. + the Germanic base of -ful suffix.For the form history see discussion at sorrow n. With the ζ. forms compare sorryful adj. A. adj.the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) xxvi. 183 Se welega bið eaðmod & sorgfull. OE (2008) 2119 Þa wæs eft hraðe gearo gyrnwræce Grendeles modor, siðode sorhfull. OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 201) in H. Sauer (1978) 411 Ongytað nu þas, men þa leofestan, þe eow towearde synt, and symble beo ge sorhfulle for eowre sawle hælo. OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) x. 10 in S. J. Crawford (1922) 409 Oð þæt hig earmlice to ðam ælmihtigan clipodon & heora synna andetton mid sorhfullum mode. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 7153 He wass forr dredd. & serrhfull inn hiss herrte. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 85 Þa wes Turnus sari & soruful on his mode. c1300 (Laud) (1868) l. 151 (MED) Alle þat the writes herden Sorful an sori til him ferden. c1300 (Laud) (1868) l. 1248 Sory and sorwful was she ay. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring (1891) l. 18 (MED) Þou, God, ne shal nouȝt despisen þe hert sorowful and meke. c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in (1877) 57 250 (MED) So sereuhful was þis Bisschope, þat almost he fel in wonhope. a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 17v Contristor, to be mad sorȝfol or greued. c1450 (Fairf. 16) f. 197 I..am the sorwfullest man. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville (Caxton) (1859) i. xxxix. 43 Ful sorrowful was this Sathanas when he sawe that he ne myght nought acheuen hys desyre. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Rawl.) (1898) 199 (MED) He became mournynge and Sorefull. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Aphorisms in sig. c.iiv Soryful syghes in sharpe agewes be to be fearyd. 1578 J. Rolland 113 Quhairfoir thay war all seuin richt sorrofow. a1605 R. Bannatyne (1836) 290 Vpoun the Weddinsday efter he was buried, being convoyed..with monie a soirfull hart. 1676 in L. B. Taylor (1961) VI. 36 Heiring of the death of..your sone for which wee are reallie sorriefull. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes II. iii. xvi. 296 Now..you may unrip, and unload, all that lies upon your sorrowful heart. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre (1799) II. 365 If I am in a sorrowful mood. 1810 W. Scott ii. 82 While sorrowful, but undismayed, The Douglas thus his counsel said. 1882 ‘Ouida’ I. 13 They were all sorrowful. 1883 F. B. Leigh iii. 89 Missus, I bery sorriful, for half de people is going to leave. 1922 8 Apr. 15/6 Even the most primitive tribes have been known to call their God ‘the burden-bearer’ or ‘the sorrowful One’. 1932 C. Lauck & F. N. Goff Lum & Abner 18 Jan. in R. L. Hall (2007) 95 I told youns how sorryful I was. 1987 A. Theroux ii. xvii. 224 She became waxen, sorrowful, and almost desperately love-hungry. 2007 (Nexis) 13 May Some people remember their birthday and go sorrowful. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] > causing sorrow or grief OE 417 Forþon hy eðles wyn geomormode ofgiefan sceoldon þurh nædran niþ..þæt hi feor þonan in þas deaðdene drohtað sohton, sorgfulran gesetu. OE (2008) 1278 His modor þa gyt..gegan wolde sorhfulne sið. OE Homily: In Die Iudicii (Cleo. B.xiii) in A. S. Napier (1883) 189 Ðeos woruld is sorhful and fram dæge to dæge a swa leng swa wyrse, forþam ðe heo is on ofstum, and hit nealæcð þam ende. lOE (Laud) anno 1112 Hit [sc. the year] wæs swiðe hefigtyme & sorhfull þurh ormætne mancwealm. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 179 (MED) Serehful is ure burde for eues gulte. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 823 (MED) Þis king adde iwend aboute in such soruol cas. 1340 (1866) 34 Efter alle þise zorȝuolle poyns of sleuþe him yefþ þe dyeuel. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iii. l. 1481 (MED) Me is levere forto deie Than live after this sorghful day. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 7861 Saul es slan, þat soroful king. c1480 (a1400) St. George l. 196 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 181 God, þat I dede had bene, or I sa soroful sicht had sene! a1500 (?a1425) tr. (Lamb.) 105 I dye for hunger and sorwfull threst. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. cxxiij Fearyng lest this dissention in Religion, should come to some sorowfull ende. 1594 W. Shakespeare v. iii. 141 Goe into old Titus sorrowfull house. View more context for this quotation 1611 Job vi. 7 The things that my soule refused to touch, are as my sorrowfull meat. View more context for this quotation 1682 M. Rowlandson Narr. of Captivity & Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson in R. H. Pearce (1956) 117 My Child being even ready to depart this sorrowful world, they bade me carry it out to another Wigwam. 1708 E. Ward 77 The sorrowful Declension of her Halcyon Days, and the Post Meridian of her fading Beauty. 1788 W. Cowper 32 He..stood looking out for his prey From Africa's sorrowful shore. 1818 P. B. Shelley vi Sounds and odours, sorrowful Because they once were sweet. 1871 H. Alabaster 245 In order that he might teach men how to escape from sorrowful existence. 1909 Aug. 574/2 Oh, dear, dear, this is the sorryful day! 1920 15 Dec. 3/2 Christmas meant..a relief to the sorrowful fears and an answer to the trembling hopes of our human race. 1962 S. Ennis tr. P. Sayers i. 2 It was a sorrowful day because there wasn't a man or a woman..who wasn't heading for the harbour with the thousand cries of grief. 2007 D. G. Kyle x. 206 Continued popularity [of athletics] led to..signs of professionalism and the start of a long and sorrowful decline. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [adjective] ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 208 Ȝef ani is þet naueð naut þe heorte þus afeitet. wið sorchfule sikes. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 1703 He morȝnede swiðe and þas worde seide mid seorhfulle laichen [c1300 Otho mid sor-fol speche]. c1390 (?a1325) Long Charter of Christ (Vernon) A. l. 182 in F. J. Furnivall (1901) ii. 651 (MED) Heo caste me mony a serwful loke. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 503 Al er we born gretand, And makand a sorowful sembland. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) iii. l. 239 (MED) Mi soruhful lauhtre pleynli was for the. 1450 W. Lomnor in (2004) II. 35 I..am right sory of that I shalle sey, and haue soo wesshe this litel bille with sorwfulle terys that [etc.]. 1565 T. Cooper at Foeditas Sorowfull blacke apparell. 1594 W. Shakespeare iii. i. 147 His napking..Can doe no seruice on her sorrowfull cheekes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. iii. 64 Where be the Sacred Violles thou should'st fill With sorrowfull water? View more context for this quotation 1668 F. Kirkman II. vii. sig. F3v With a sorrowful voice..she pewled out these words. 1706 T. Baker i. i. 6 Marry'd Wretches with careful sorrowful Faces, lugging along their big-belly'd Spouses. 1771 I. iii. vi. 220 It is insisted on that Tears are an evident Sign of Grief, I say, not without they are accompanied by a sorrowful Countenance. 1819 W. Scott III. ii. 40 Her lovely brow, though sorrowful, bore on it a cast of reviving hope. 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ I. 225 The poor mother smiles the..sorrowfulest smile that ever hovered on a woman's lips. 1920 J. Conrad Author's Note to Secret Agent in A. Ingram (1986) 95 Some of the admonitions were severe, others had a sorrowful note. 1989 G. Clarke 37 In the last heavy nights before full moon, when its face seems sorrowful and broken, I look through binoculars. 2007 P. Gale (2008) 75 An onslaught of every species of affection from sorrowful looks through handshakes to hugs. B. n.the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] > sorrowful person the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > lamenter(s) eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) xxvi. 183 Ðætte ða sorgfullan ongieten ðæt him becumað ða welan ðe him gehatene sint. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1934) 26 (MED) Þe ich þonki..þe kingene king art..sorhfule & sari & sunfule toturn. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 17263 (MED) Þi choselinges..þu broght Of helle quen þaa sorful soght. c1440 (?a1400) l. 953 He saluȝede that sorowfull with sittande wordez. a1530 W. Bonde (1531) iii. f. CCxiiiv How they haue conforted the heuy & sorowfull. 1556 tr. J. de Flores sig. N2 Ha poore sorrowfull. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas ii. 32 O how sweet is it to the sorrowfull, to vnsheathe their griefes? 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Wits Cabal i. iv. xxxii, in 281 Have you cheered the Aged, nourished the Hungry, succoured the Infirm, relieved the Distressed, comforted the Sorrowful, and guided the Ignorant? ?1728 R. Blair 3 Thou..Sigh'd with the Sorrowful, and bore a Part, In all the Anguish of a bleeding Heart. 1770 H. Brooke V. 22 Supplying Eyes to the Blind, and Limbs to the Lame; and Chearfulness to the Sorrowful and broken of Heart. 1836 C. Francis ii. 38 Wherever the sorrowful are to be comforted,..—there the religion of Jesus Christ appears. 1869 H. F. Tozer II. 324 [Death] coming with a friendly aspect to relieve the sorrowful. 1921 Feb. 161/2 The sorrowful are, after all, far in excess of the doubtful. 2002 L. Zielinski in J. Canfield et al. 98 Nana gave strength to the sorrowful, calm to the hysterical. C. adv.the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adverb] > in manner to cause sorrow or grief c1415 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Lansd.) (1872) l. 913 Woo was þis knyht and sorwful he sikeþ. a1475 (c1375) G. Chaucer (Longleat) (1880) l. 207 Vpon a day ful sorowful [a1500 Harl. 7333 soroufull] weping. 1832 J. Carne I. 118 The youth..held fast his integrity, and the father went sorrowful away. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 202 When from an anguish'd heart these words stream'd sorrowful upwards. 1937 F. Berry Interview 26 Feb. in C. L. Perdue et al. (1976) 39 De niggers sing dis sorrowful, 'cause some niggers have been beat, or whupped, or sole away. Compounds 1601 R. Verstegan sig. C2v (heading) The second sorowful mysterie. Conteyning the scourging of Christe. 1737 R. Challoner xxv. 240 The five next are called the dolorous or sorrowful Mysteries. 1886 Oct. 9 654/2 Some people still cling to the belief that the sign of the Bleeding Heart..is emblematical of the five sorrowful mysteries of the rosary. 1985 S. Currie in D. Helwig & S. Martin 82 They were beginning the first Sorrowful Mystery, ‘The Agony in the Garden’. 2008 8 Feb. 18/2 After praying the sorrowful mysteries regularly for many years, I felt sure they could be a door that opened up the meaning of the Passion. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > jasmine 1597 J. Gerard iii. 1342 Arbor tristis, the sad or sorrowfull tree waxeth as bigge as an Oliue tree. 1657 S. Clarke Examples Wonderfull Works God ii, in 195 There is also a tree called Arbore triste, or the sorrowful tree, so called, because it never beareth blossoms but in the night-time. 1757 tr. C.-M. Guyon I. ii. i. iii. 308 There grows in the island of Goa a very singular tree, called the sorrowful tree, because it flourishes in the night-time only. 1840 J. Taylor ii. 57 The sorrowful tree, or Indian Mourner, so named from the drooping withered look of the flowers during the day. 1900 Jan. 44/1 When the first star appears in the heavens, the first bud of the Sorrowful Tree opens. 2003 (Nexis) 11 July a11 It is called the Sorrowful Tree because it has the remarkable characteristic of blooming only in the night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  adj.n.adv.eOE |
